Sunday Orders of Service
A Service of Word and Praise for 5th July 2020The Fourth Sunday after Trinity
¶ Gathering
Welcome
The minister offers words of welcome, gathering us into God’s presence, and introduces the first hymn:
Hymn
Morning has broken
Leader: Let us worship God:
We have come together as the family of God in our Father’s presence to offer him praise and thanksgiving to hear his holy word, to bring before him the needs of the world, to ask his forgiveness of our sins, and to seek his grace.
Confession
Leader: Let us confess our sins in penitence and faith,
All: Almighty God our heavenly Father,
AbsolutionThe Priest says: Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and keep you in life eternal. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Collect(Prayer for the Day)A minister prays:
O God, For our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, Amen.
¶ The Ministry of the WordFirst ReadingRomans 7:15-25aA reading from St Paul’s letter to the Romans:I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.
For the word of the Lord. All: Thanks be to God.
HymnI, the Lord of sea and sky, (based on Isaiah 6) Text and music © Daniel L Schutte and New Dawn Music
Gospel ReadingMatthew 11:16-19, 25-end
[Jesus said] ‘But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.’ At that time Jesus said, ‘I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. ‘Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.’
HomilyRevd SallyInterludeMusic for reflectionAffirmation of Faith
Leader: Let us affirm our faith together:
All: We believe in God the Father,
Prayers of Intercession
followed by The Lord’s prayer:
Leader: Let us pray in confidence, the Prayer that Jesus taught us:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hymn(Tune: Londonderry Air)
I cannot tell how he whom angels worship
I cannot tell how silently he suffered,
I cannot tell how he will win the nations,
I cannot tell how all the lands shall worship, ‘At last the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is King!’
¶ Dismissal
Closing Prayer
Leader: Eternal God, All: Amen.
Blessing & DismissalThe Priest pronounces the Blessing: The peace of God, All: Amen.
Leader: Let us go in the peace of Christ.
All: Thanks be to God.
Organ VoluntaryDirector of Music: James Lilwall
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